New Species and New Records of Caddisflies (Insecta: Trichoptera) from India
Author
Kaur, Simarjit
Author
Garima, Deepti
Author
Pandher, Manpreet Singh
text
Zootaxa
2020
2020-03-03
4747
2
350
360
journal article
10.11646/zootaxa.4747.2.7
a80f275c-a61f-4a5b-a6fe-ddd05d42c73f
1175-5326
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Cheumatopsyche globosa
(
Ulmer 1910
)
, NEW RECORD for
India
(
Figs. 6–9
)
Cheumatopsyche globosa
(
Ulmer 1910
, 56)
Material examined.
India
:
Arunachal Pradesh
;
Ramsing
,
27
°
55’40.548” N
,
95
°
29’21.012” E
,
26.x.2017
, Maheshwaran & party (
NZC
),
1 male
.
Diagnosis.
Cheumatopsyche globosa
(
Ulmer 1910
)
is very similar to
Ch. truncata
Martynov 1935
described from
India
. Probably,
Ch truncata
is a synonym of
Ch. globosa
.
Malicky 1997b
also suggested this probable synonymy while describing and illustrating the variations of
Ch. globosa
from Asia. Furthermore, there are considerable similarities in the colour pattern of the forewings (in both of these species it is light brown but some specimens from
Thailand
have bright spots) and also the wing length is the same (
5–7 mm
) as mentioned by
Malicky 1997b
. The only possible difference is in the shape of tergum X in these species.
Ch. simayorum
Oláh & Johanson 2008
also seems to be the same species. We refrain from designating these species as synonyms pending further morphological and molecular study.
Distribution:
Nepal
,
Thailand
,
Indonesia
(
Bali
,
Java
,
Sumatra
),
China
,
Malaysia
,
India
.